Gender equality | How to ensure senior positions attract applications from women

The issue of gender equality in the employment market remains prominent. Despite employers making a conscious effort to diversify their senior leadership teams, and level the playing field when it comes to gender equality, it seems that there is still much to be done. This is backed by the stats.

According to 2018 research from Catalyst, women hold 24% of senior roles across the globe, which decreased from 25% in 2017. But, there is improvement - in 2018, 75% of businesses reported having at least one woman in senior management roles compared with 66% in 2017.

But the research found that there are still no women in senior positions at 25% of global firms which indicates that more needs to be done to improve gender diversity. Improving gender diversity on the Board can start with candidate attraction in the recruitment process.

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